In a shock announcement Robbie Williams will headline the New 12 months’s Eve live performance broadcast on ABC.
Williams has bought 85 million album gross sales worldwide, with a sellout 2023 tour of Australia and filming his biopic Higher Man in Melbourne.
Robbie Williams mentioned: “I really like and adore Australia, and the Sydney fireworks are actually magical. To be ringing within the New 12 months within the nation the place my biopic film, Higher Man, was shot would be the good finish to 2024 and the perfect begin to 2025. I can’t wait to carry out and have a good time with my unbelievable Australian followers”.
In addition to acting on the NYE24 stage in entrance of the Sydney Opera Home, ABC will display a behind the scenes have a look at the making of Higher Man.
Williams joins the already-announced line up of Fanning Dempsey Nationwide Park (Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey), Casey Donovan, Cyril, 1300, Nooky, Randy Houser, Becca Hatch and G Flip.
In partnership with the Metropolis of Sydney, hosts Charlie Pickering, Zan Rowe and Concetta Caristo will kick off festivities on Tuesday 31 December at 8.30pm on ABC TV, ABC iview and throughout ABC socials on YouTube, Fb and TikTok.
The live performance will even be broadcast on ABC Native Radio, from 9pm AEDT.
Worldwide audiences can even tune in to ABC Australia, and the fireworks shows might be audio described for the imaginative and prescient impaired and accessible on the ABC hear app.
Manufacturing Credit score: An ABC manufacturing: Supervisor Occasions and Partnerships: Janet Gaeta. Govt Producer: Rowdie Walden. Head of Arts, Music and Occasions: Kath Earle.
